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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5602479" data-attributes="member: 78958">I see you point, and feel much the same about Full Plate. I think they wanted to keep Full Plate as being really, really prestigious and special. It's so costly you could almost get a nice magic item for the price - one of very few mundane items in that regard. So they wanted to make it extra nice, I guess.Concerning another point made above: Chainmail is actually quite good against spears and arrows. There are accounts in the medieval source texts that state crusader knights had "their mail stuck full of arrows like a hedgehog, but were in fact barely wounded underneath. Their sight filled the heathens with awe, for they knew not such armor", or some such.Flexible armor that is well made (chain or scale mail) can work much like kevlar, dispersing the force of impact over a wider area. So being shot at with an arrow wearing chainmail might feel more like being whacked with a rubber hammer - IF the arrow is shot at range. At short distances, arrows and crossbow bolts could penetrate all medieval armor except plate.</blockquote>